Long day at skating and Wild Science....

After skating practice today, we went to Wild Science Investigations at the Zoo! The topic was "Big Tracks, Little Tracks". They learned some new terms: digitigrade, unguligrade, and plantigrade-- pretty big words for 5-7 yr olds. After looking at tracks in the sand and on the TV/Computer, they made plaster footprint casts. Jazzy made the Red Fox print. They talked alot about why scientists make casts i.e. to study details. Then they all hiked around the zoo looking for "clues" to lead them to the animal they were "tracking". Each clue was marked by a red flag somewhere at the zoo, and led them to the next clue until they finally reached the Cheetah. The cheetah went into his indoor cage, while the kids went into his area and looked at footprints and scat. :))

Making a plaster footprint of the Red Fox.

Making observations about the Sonoran king snake.

Writing observations about Nelson the bunny.

Finished product.